Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Key metrics. Going smaller, use key metrics to ensure that your business is on track to reach your milestones. The five key metrics to judge your subscription model’s success are: Churn and churn rate. Intellectual property. MRR (monthly recurring revenue). ARPU (average monthly revenue per user/customer).

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Business Plan Curation Balance Sheet Intellectual Property 63

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”. Financial forecast and metrics. Skip the technical jargon and hyperbole. Focus is the keyword here.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”. Financial forecast and metrics. Skip the technical jargon and hyperbole. Focus is the keyword here.

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

Revisit and update it regularly by comparing your forecasts to your actuals and adjusting as necessary. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Milestones and metrics. For metrics , decide which numbers to check regularly to track your company’s health. Strategic partnerships or alliances.

Business Plan 72

Business Plan Technical Review Exit Strategy Oregon 72

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

As an investor myself, I look for a balanced story focused on the major elements that drive profitability, including the following: A 5-year financial forecast achieving a positive cash flow early. The best advantage includes intellectual property to provide a barrier to entry or incent acquisition.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Set a specific time each month to review it , comparing forecasts to actuals and revising as necessary. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Milestones and metrics. For metrics , decide which numbers to check regularly to track your company’s health. Number of days spent flipping a property.

El Paso 61

El Paso Business Plan Technical Review Forecast 61

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”. Financial forecast and metrics. Skip the technical jargon and hyperbole. Focus is the keyword here.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”. Financial forecast and metrics. Skip the technical jargon and hyperbole. Focus is the keyword here.

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Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

And frankly, we we're, we're far enough down the learning curve here that I know we're putting sort of a lot of intellectual property out in the world through publishing this book and, you know, anybody that can have it and therefore, you know, do you, do you need to call us or not? And we wanna see the world do better.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections.   For the sake of this discussion it’s the method rather than the specific metric that is important. [2]   In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

How you intend to beat specific competitors (business model, intellectual property) is a key investor decision criteria. Of course, these should never be in a customer pitch, but investors expect an overall strategy with specific budgets, milestones and metrics. Competitor positioning and sustainable competitive advantage.

Product 120

Product Intellectual Property Liquidity Event Burn Rate 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

The best differentiation is a patent or other intellectual property that also provides a barrier to entry. The smart ones identify and budget innovative approaches, and use metrics to tools to monitor effectiveness. Generate a 5-year financial forecast from opportunity data.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy 120

ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

According to an article on Duke University’s website , “A stationarized series is relatively easy to predict: you simply predict that its statistical properties will be the same in the future as they have been in the past!”. Basically, all changes made during the testing period (combined into one metric) tested against the old version.

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PPC SEM Technical Review Conversion 48